I will be purchasing a new liner for my 28' above ground pool. Our old liner has had a leak for the past few years, and the patch is no longer working. Almost all of the water was lost over the winter. We ended up taking our winter cover off early, because the ice and snow was causing the sides to start buckling inward. I don't think it did any damage.

Anyway, I am looking for any advice on purchasing or installing a new linner. We have a over-lap type liner. I have called our pool place for quotes on linners and istalation, and it will cost me $400.00 to have the pool company come out and install a new liner. Thats not including the cost of a new liner. That is a bit pricy for me.

I am considering installing it myself. I have never installed one before. I would like to know from anyone who has ever done this themselves if it was easy or hard. I just want to know what I am getting into by doing this myself. Any tips or advice would be greatly appreciated.

You would use duct tape and card board cut out to seal the return and skimmer hole after liner is pretty much set. Cut a small hole for the shopvac hose in the cardboard cutout on skimmer, shove hose in, duct tape more.

Turn on shopvac. What you're basically looking for is a seal.

With a few inches or so of water in the pool, start working your wrinkles out with the vac on. This step is pretty crucial *I think* for a wrinkle free bottom. Don't let the water get too deep because then the wrinkles won't budge. It took me a couple hours of working my liner to get a good wrinkle free bottom. I do have a few baby wrinkles though. I can hardly see them. You really have to stare for them.